Kutupalong refugee camp

Common card · No. 271542

Kutupalong refugee camp (Bengali: কুতুপালং শরণার্থী শিবির, romanized: Kutupalong shoronarthi shibir) is the world's largest refugee camp. It is located in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, and is inhabited mostly by Rohingya refugees who fled from ethnic and religious persecution in neighboring Myanmar. It is one of two government-run refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, the other being the Nayapara refugee camp. A cross-sectional study that was conducted back in 2013 among 148 Rohingya refugees from the Kutupalong and Nayapara camps suggested the likelihood of a high prevalence of mental health disorders like depression and PTSD. The UNHCR camp office at Kutupalong is supported by seven international entities: the governments of the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan, Finland, Sweden, and the Stichting INGKA Foundation. With a population over 650,000 it is the sixth most populous urban area in Bangladesh as well as being the second most densely populated in the world.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Maaz Hussain (VOA), Public domain